Dabral has over two decades of experience in advertising industry and has curated many winning campaigns for major local, regional and multinational brands.¬† He began his career in Lintas and after a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, went on to have an extremely successful stint at Ogilvy Mumbai. He then went on to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region.

Thereafter, as the Chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, Dabral helped the agency become the hottest agency in the region and the No.1 creative office of the WPP global network. In 2007 he led the agency to be the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions.¬†He is¬†a prolific winner in most of the Regional and International Award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes etc,

Kumar has been celebrated in India and recognized globally for the ability to amplify deep local insights into simple ideas that solve complicated marketing challenges. He has won India‚Äôs first and second Film Gold Lions at The Cannes Lions International Festival in 2009.¬†His ideas have helped build several brands in India including: Levi's, Nike, Google, Ford, etc.

Kumar can be spotted in several Creative Books under the classifications of Writer, Creative Director, Designer, Photographer and Film Maker. His work has risen beyond successful marketing case studies to mine over 100 international creative awards.

Katial is¬†at the helm of one of India‚Äôs youngest media houses and is considered to be one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. A stint in adverting followed by over a decade of experience in broadcast with brands like Star and Sony and now Reliance Broadcast, Katial has successfully led high decibel launches of industry tent poles and has always been able to rightly tap the consumer‚Äôs pulse.

Other significant achievements in Katial‚Äôs cap include being voted the NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and being included among the best in the ‚ÄėIndia Today 30 on 30‚Äô list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes.

Chaudhry has over 24 years of Brand Communication & Reputation Management experience across ¬†Industries & key global markets and is also founder President of the "Indian Forum Of¬† Corporate Communicators" (IFCC).¬†¬† Chaudhry's last¬†assignment¬†was as Group President -Corporate Communications, Reliance Industries, prior to which he was Head of Communications at HUL & Communications Leader, Unilever South Asia. ¬†From building the Corporate¬†Brand of Ranbaxy in N¬†America, Europe & India, to¬†aligning¬†regional¬†communication country teams to bring alive ‚Äúthe transition to one Unilever brand" and driving the Corporate name change from "HLL" to "HUL", to putting together systems & processes for effective global (internal & external) communications at RIL, Chaudhry has led communications for many iconic and tentpole campaigns in India.

The¬†next¬†round of¬†Goa¬†Fest¬†ABBY Award 2016 Jury chairs will be announced soon.

Presented by the Advertising Club and AAAI the¬†Goafest¬†ABBYs 2016 will once again see the entire advertising and marketing fraternity come together in¬†Goa¬†from¬†7th April, 2016 to 9th April 2016¬†at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim, North¬†Goa.